Should be a Thursday Special, but whatever.
The Colditz Legacy:
It’s a short to medium novel, in length, and apparently, not yet available from a US publisher. But I’m sure it will be, soon. The Colditz Legacy by Guy Walters is slightly different in that there are really two halves to the story. The first part of the book is about an escape from Colditz, the legendary castle. Set in 1940-1, the first half felt like a revisit to history and a bit of adventure fiction thrown in for good measure, done in typical British fashion. God Save the queen, and all that.
Not to spoil the plot, but at least one plucky British officer escapes. Jump ahead a little more than 30 years, to the Cold War, and about the last third of the novel builds with tightly plotted action that reads much like an old, Cold War thriller. Spies, spooks and such. The bad guys are bad, the good guys are Brits, and there’s a good twist at the end.
There’s character, development, back-story, thriller, espionage, brutal East German torture techniques, and a glimpse at the way it was.
Read it one day, too. Not that long.
Garage Band:
(By Apple.) So the software is making other folks wonder about music? I’ve garnered many comments, some rather nice, about the background music I use in the weekly audio and video ‘casts. The secret is laying down tracks when I hear something I want to emulate. I can poke and paste together a couple of samples until I get something that I might – or might not – use at a later date. Handy stuff to have around. When I sit down to record a message, I’ve got a stockpile of material from which to draw.
Modern Manners?
When to take the call or stop the iPod?
The Fat Guy:
TFG (Scott’s his real name) is one of those originals, can’t be duplicated, and offers much wit and wisdom at times. Other times? He’s just bloody brilliant.
But, so far, the only tattoo I’ve considered is a – some surprise – a musical allusion, name that song, “On the muscle of my arm, there’s a red and blue tattoo, says…”
N.B.:Buy the guy a Shiner.
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Looking for something else:
Turned up the lyrics to a favorite Lyle Lovett tune:
Artist/Band: Lovett Lyle
Lyrics for Song: Here I Am
Lyrics for Album: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
I’m the guy who sits next to you
And reads the newspaper over your shoulder
Wait
Don’t turn the page
I’m not finished
Life is so uncertain
Here I am
Yes it’s me
Take my hand
And you’ll see
Here I am
Yes it’s true
All I want
Girl is you
Given that true intellectual and emotional compatability
Are at the very least difficult
If not impossible to come by
We could always opt for the more temporal gratification
Of sheer physical attraction
That wouldn’t make you a shallow person
Would it
Here I am
Yes it’s me
Take my hand
And you’ll see
Here I am
Yes it’s true
All I want
Girl is you
If Ford is to Chevrolet
What Dodge is to Chrysler
What Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties
What the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea
What Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong
Can you doubt we were made for each other
Here I am
Yes it’s me
Take my hand
And you’ll see
Here I am
Yes it’s true
All I want
Girl is you
Look
I understand too little too late
I realize there are things you say and do
You can never take back
But what would you be if you didn’t even try
You have to try
So after a lot of thought
I’d like to reconsider
Please
If it’s not too late
Make it a cheeseburger
Here I am
Yes it’s me
Take my hand
And you’ll see
Here I am
Yes it’s true
All I want
Girl is you
